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During the 1980s, dramatic changes in the federal budget, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury initiated the most comprehensive series of economic experiments since the 1930s. This book describes the nature of those experiments and compares them to...

This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration. Advancing an explanation based on political parties' constitutional preferences, the volume investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary...

The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and...

The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder, this collection of essays examines the role of...

Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech. This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policy-for example, Senator...

Gun ownership is as old as the nation, but, as Robert J. Spitzer demonstrates in Guns across America, so is gun regulation. In vast swathes of America, the sanctity of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned, yet by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955007Author Oscar HandlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PerfectBoundPublisher PerfectBoundWeight(grams) 626g

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In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California, he writes, has an American government been so...

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS Subject: Government & Politics First Teaching: September 2012 First Exam: June 2013 Thoroughly covering Unit 2: Governing Modern Britain, this unit guide will give you an in-depth understanding of the subject and what is...

Exam Board: AQA Level: AS Subject: Government & Politics First Teaching: September 2012 First Exam: June 2013 Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers...

Unlock your full potential with these revision guides which focus on the key content and skills you need to know. With My Revision Notes for Edexcel AS UK Government & Politics you can: - Take control of your revision: plan and focus on the areas you...

President Bill Clinton outlines his vision for the United States of America in the 21st century. This book is both an articulation of the political philosophy which underpins his policies for the future and a statement of the guiding principles behind...

- In opposition he was the strategic driving force behind New Labour. - In government he was one of Britain's most intellectually assured chancellors. - Within his own party, he seemed an unchallengeable power. - Everything in his background prepared him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889117709Author Thomas J. CourcheneFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's University

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889115590Author Douglas M. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's University

The third booklet in a series to explore the topic of legislative, executive and judicial governance in eleven federal countriesBook InformationISBN 9780773533158Author Raoul BlindenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McGill-Queen's University...

The fifth booklet in a series to explore the topic of legislative, executive and judicial governance in eleven federal countriesBook InformationISBN 9780773533127Author Raoul BlindenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint McGill-Queen's University...

In every area of life, traditional, centralized party politics has been failing and the seeds of a new form of political life are being sown. This is true in housing, health, education, consumption and transport, where public policy is attracting...

'This is clearly a book with great breadth and diversity... a valuable addition to the literature about east and southeast Asia.' T Forsyth, Development Studies Institute London School of Economics and Political Science, in Land Degradation and...

All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain...

For all our mockery of America, we are morbidly fascinated by it. This is a book about George W. Bush 'uncut', his extreme ideology, his capabilities, and his past.Book InformationISBN 9780749006181Author Molly IvinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint...

Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889115880Author Douglas M. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's University

Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien,...

Several contributors deal with the quality of Canadian citizenship and the principle of distributive justice applied to all citizens. Others offer a "lament" for the Canadian nation, analysing and explaining why the vision of Canadian...

Dunn investigates factors leading to the initiation and persistence of institutionalized cabinets in the governments of T.C. Douglas in Saskatchewan, Duff Roblin and Walter Weir in Manitoba, and W.R. Bennett in British Columbia. He describes the...

Webber begins by showing how different conceptions of culture, language, and nation shaped Canada's constitutional negotiations from 1960 until the referendum of 1992. He then calls for a reconception of the terms of the debate, claiming that the terms...

Several contributors deal with the quality of Canadian citizenship and the principle of distributive justice applied to all citizens. Others offer a "lament" for the Canadian nation, analysing and explaining why the vision of Canadian...

The first edition of The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism focused on the impact of federalism on social policy during a period of economic growth and expanding social expenditures. The revised edition extends the analysis by asking how the federal...

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The long drawn out and heavily politicised presidential election process in 2000 with the winner Republican George W. Bush taking a smaller percentage of the popular vote that his Democratic rival, raised important issues of legitimacy. The September 11...

In January 2001, George W. Bush assumed the Presidency of the United States promising peace, prosperity, and a renewed sense of integrity. In the Bush Betrayal, James Bovard vividly illustrates how Bush abandoned both his campaign promises an his oath to...

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Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the 1990s were dominated by the politically orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and the political uniformity of centre right governments the first decade of the new century is being...

This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and...

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